Essentials of Post–Cold War Deterrence is a document produced in 1995 as a "Terms of Reference" by the Policy Subcommittee of the Strategic Advisory Group...
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Mutual assured destruction (redirect from Mutual deterrence)
consistent with current deterrence policy. In Essentials of Post-Cold War Deterrence, the authors detail an explicit advocation of ambiguity regarding "what...
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The US policy on deterrence after the Cold War was outlined in 1995 in the document called "Essentials of Post–Cold War Deterrence". It explains that...
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The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist...
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Nuclear warfare (redirect from Post-nuclear war)
outline of forward-thinking strategies in the document "Essentials of Post–Cold War Deterrence". In 1995, a Black Brant sounding rocket launched from the...
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Brinkmanship Deterrence theory Doomsday Clock Emotional blackmail Essentials of Post–Cold War Deterrence Mutual assured destruction Nuclear terrorism Samson Option...
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United States national missile defense (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from August 2021)
possibly capable of intercepting a liquid fuel missile if within 600 km from a launch point. Essentials of Post–Cold War Deterrence Deterrence theory Militarisation...
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Nuclear arms race (category Weapons of the Cold War)
Space Race Artificial intelligence arms race Cold War Essentials of Post–Cold War Deterrence Deterrence theory Nuclear disarmament Historical nuclear...
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(UNC) led by the United States. The conflict was one of the first major proxy wars of the Cold War. Fighting ended in 1953 with an armistice but no peace...
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Massive retaliation (category Cold War policies)
of a Soviet second strike capability, in the form of silo-based ICBMs and later SLBMs. Dead Hand (nuclear war) Cold War Deterrence theory Essentials of...
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Nuclear weapon (redirect from Nuclear war weapon)
probability of nuclear war, especially accidentally. Critics of nuclear disarmament say that it would undermine the present nuclear peace and deterrence and would...
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The Cold War (1953–1962) refers to the period in the Cold War between the end of the Korean War in 1953 and the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. It was marked...
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Nuclear triad (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from February 2023)
M51 missile. Today, France's national security is based on deterrence. Since the Cold War, France has scaled down their weapons program; the budget for...
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warfare Atomic Age Deterrence theory Doomsday clock Doomsday event Essentials of Post–Cold War Deterrence International Court of Justice advisory opinion...
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André Beaufre (category French military personnel of the Rif War)
the Cold War and prevented a nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. For Beaufre, deterrence was above all the threat of nuclear...
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Great power (category Types of countries)
with the Reconciliation of Europe, (1931), p. 307. Toje, A. (2010). The European Union as a small power: After the post-Cold War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan...
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The Cold War (1962–1979) refers to the phase within the Cold War that spanned the period between the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October...
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reinforced Israel's military deterrence, it had a stunning effect on the population in Israel. Following their victory in the Six-Day War, the Israeli military...
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War Crimes in South Asia. Routledge. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-415-56566-0. Siddiqui, Asif (December 1997). "From Deterrence and Coercive Diplomacy to War:...
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Air assault (section Post Cold War)
parachutists and the use of military gliders. During World War II many assaults were done by military gliders. The World War Two era German Fallschirmjäger...
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Wartime sexual violence (redirect from Rape as a weapon of war)
or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during an armed conflict, war, or military occupation often as spoils of war, but sometimes...
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John Mearsheimer (category American people of German descent)
implications from his theory for the prospects of conventional deterrence in Central Europe during the late Cold War. It argues that a Soviet attack is unlikely...
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preserve peace. The concept has long been associated with realpolitik and deterrence theory. The phrase probably originates with Neville Chamberlain who ran...
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well-documented winter campaigns. During World War II several actions took place above the Arctic Circle. Recent cold-weather conflicts have occurred in the Himalayas...
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Day War. Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 978-0-395-07532-6. Cohen, Raymond (1988). "Intercultural Communication between Israel and Egypt: Deterrence Failure...
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terrorist organization Crawford, Timothy W. (2001). "Pivotal Deterrence and the Kosovo War: Why the Holbrooke Agreement Failed". Political Science Quarterly...
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Military strategy (redirect from Strategic level of war)
to a nuclear attack. Strategy in the post Cold War is shaped by the global geopolitical situation: a number of potent powers in a multipolar array which...
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(1990) [Published online: 24 Jan 2008]. "Deterrence failure revisited: The Indo-Pakistani war of 1965". Journal of Strategic Studies. 13 (4): 77–93. doi:10...
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(2024-03-20). "War and Peace". Our World in Data. Herre, Bastian; Roser, Max (2024-07-15). "Millions have died in conflicts since the Cold War; most of them in...
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NATO (redirect from Orders, decorations, and medals of NATO)
During the Cold War, NATO operated as a check on the threat posed by the Soviet Union. The alliance remained in place after the dissolution of the Soviet...
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